Anchoring beams to walls and truss and girder beams



(No Model.)

G. O. WHITLOOK. I ANGHOEING BEAMS TO WALLS AND TRUSS AND GIRDER BEAMS.

No. 443,657. Patented Dec. 30, 1890.

FIG-N O o O E ,&M a W Um'rnn grams GEORGE o. WHITLOCK, 0EOMAHA-NEBRASKA.

ANCHORiNG BEAMS TO WALLS AND TRUSS AND GIRDER BEAMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,657, dated December30, 1890.

Apnlication filetl April 15, 1890.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. WHITLocK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Anchoring Beams to IValls andTruss and Girder Beams, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to anchoring the beams to partition and other wallsand truss or girder beams by means of longitudinal bar-iron railsmasoned and anchored to the longitudinal walls, truss, or girders, andby said rails having an upward tongue or web, over which the floor-beamwith a lateral groove at the seat of its end matches and is therebyanchored to the wall.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l represents a horizontal section of abrick building at a floor, with a construction of anchoring the beams tothe walls and girders according to my improvement. Fig. 2 is a verticallateral section ofsuch construction,showing only the portions of thewalls and building connected with the floor-beams. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section of the same. Fig. 4 is a detached vertical lateralsection of the anchoring rail or bar and showing the joint of thefloorbeam and end with it. Figs. 5 and 6 are a detached vertical andhorizontal section showing the invention applied to the wall, which isbuilt with a projecting brick saddle or ledge for the floor-beams torest upon.

A A represent the outside longitudinal walls, B B the front and rearwalls, 0 a girder-beam, and C a partition-wall, of a building.

D represents the floor-beams.

At the designated level of the base for the floor-beams along thelongitudinal walls A are masoned the horizontal bar iron or rails E,flush with the inner sides of said walls, which rails have an upwardtongue F along said inside of the wall and extend from and into thefront and rear walls B B, and in the center of said each rear and frontwalls is masoned a flat bar G, which overlaps with its ends both therails E employed in the two longitudinal walls A A. The meeting ends ofthe bars G with the ends of the rails E are connected by bolts or rivetsH, and the rails E are also secured to theirwalls by lateral anchors II, of which a number is provided a Serial No. 348,040. (No model.)

suitable distance apart along each rail to lock it to the wall, and eachengaging with a hook end into an opening made in the rail and havinglongitudinal bent legs masoned in the wall, as shown. The floor-beamshave each a lateral groove J, cut in the resting-seat of the beam andengaged by the wall and rail E. Said groove in the beam end engages overthe tongue of the rail, and the beam is thereby anchored to the wall.When a partition-wall Cis employed between the side wallsAA,such a railE is laid and masoned at such level on each side of said partition-wall,as shown,

and a double-hooked clamp-anchor K is used,

connecting the two rails together by the hooks on its ends engaging inopenings in the rails, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. hen a girder-beam isused in the building between its side walls, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3,the rail E has a central tongue or rib F, and the beams to each side ofthe girder engage both with their grooves J over the tongue F, as shown.\Vith the beams and floors, where much strain is trusted to them, Iprotect the beam ends from splitting by means of fiat iron straps L,which are employed on the opposite longitudinal sides of each beam end,and by bolts or nails through the beam end and said straps the beam endis clinched between. Said straps have also the grooves J to look overthe ribs F. vVith girder-beams the rail E is spiked or nailed to thegirderbeams.

In buildings in which the walls have a projecting brick saddle or ledgeA to rest the floor-beams, shown in Fig. 5, the rail E is placed uponthe said saddle or ledge, and by means of anchors I engaging in the railand being made with a hook to lock in the wall and masoned in the same,the beams are anchored to the wall. \Vith a proper number ofequally-distributed anchors I the rail E is held upon said saddle orledge and the floor-beams, with the grooves J at their seats lockingover the ribs F of the rail, whereby the walls are anchored to thefloor-beams.

In buildings where the girder-beams rest upon brick pier or buttress Aon the end walls, as shown in Fig. 6, the ends of the rail E areanchored to the walls by clam p-anchors K, of which one end engages inthe rail end E and the other end has a hook which is masoned in thewall. Where the lloor beams and gird- 015 do not rest upon a saddle orledge A formed on the wall, the beam ends enter the wall. Said beam endsare cut slanting, as shown, to allow in case of fire the beam ends todrop out of the wall without breaking the wall. (All shown in dottedline in Fig. 2.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is i In anchoring floor-beams, girders, and other beams to walls, thecombination of bars or rails E, havingan upward tongue, web, or rib F,anchored to and masoned in the walls or anchored to the girder-beam andthe floor or roof beam, provided with a lateral groove J to look oversaid rib or tongue F, substantially as and for the purpose herein setforth.

GEO. G. WITIITLOOK.

\Vitnesses:

JAMES GILBERT, \VAL'LER M. Uamnn.

